I think you can only get it from his website, but it is an ebook and can read on kindle
Nah just found it on the Amazon Kindle site
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Wait. Thatās not the same cover. Haha.
Dan John Easy Strength is on kindle. The book with Pavelā¦I hadnāt read it so I grabbed it anyway.
I see the ebook on his website is a different coverā¦the cover youāve shown.
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Yep 2 different books. Be interesting to see how you like the old one. I may get that too of you like it.,
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Iāll buy both. Lol. I donāt muck around when it comes to reading.
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Your words cut deep my man
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@ChongLordUno I watched that right before my morning workout: thanks for sharing it! Incredible to see the reaching impact.
@wiseman83 Fantastic solution to the 2 book problem, haha.
AM WORKOUT (0430 wake up via alarm) FASTED
PLAGUE OF STRENGTHāS āFAMINEā ROUTINE: RAGNAROK IS HERE Week 2, Workout 5/Final āDealerās Choiceā
(5) Mat pulls
12+5+4x415+chains
Buffalo bar squat stripset
12x315
18x225
25x155
2+ mile walk
15 rounds EMOM of
- 20 squats
- 20 push ups
- 10 KB swings w/24kg bell
Notes:
- I was absolutely exhausted and had the day off work, so slept in and went with the highlights/important stuff so I could still have time with the family. I was really pleased with how the mat pulls went, but I had nothing left in me for the squats. I am absolutely flat, totally carb depleted: the famine is real. Soon enough, we feast.
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That EMOM is impressive man. Thatās movingā¦
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Appreciate it man! Itās funny though: thatās exactly what I talk about in my video, haha. I poured my soul into those mat pulls and squats, and that EMOM was just part of my daily activity. As Jamie said: itās not a workout, itās part of being a human.
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@simo74 & @T3hPwnisher - is Never Let Go the Dan John book to read? I feel like Iāve seen you both recommend it multiple times. I havenāt ever read any of his books but really enjoy his writing.
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Never let go - Dan John - This is a book that is a collection of a lot of Dans articles on training, so it reads like short stories with great training advice. This is a book I have read more than once and often go back to it, to remind myself of things I have forgotten. (can get from amazon on kindle)
I would deff recommend it.
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@jshaving less that itās āTHEā Dan John book and more just the more memorable one. I really think the Easy Strength Omnibook tops it, but itās a bit more focused, whereas Never Let Go is more broad spectrum.
Shoulda taken a photo, but I had Subway for dinner and itās super carnivore friendly. I got 2 footlongs: a steak and egg white and a chicken breast. Had them put it on itallian bread with nothing else, asked for a salad bowl, scooped the meat into the bowl and brought the bread home, since my kid likes it. Too many ways to make this work.
Tang Soo Do wasnāt much of a workout, but I was exhausted enough that I felt it. This weekend will be the start of some feasting.
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Weekend wasnāt quite as bonkers as usual, primarily because I have 4 days off work so we used yesterday to get a lot of chores knocked out.
Slept in until 0730, got in 150 squats and 250 push ups first thing, had that breakfast which was an omelete of 2 whole pasture raised eggs, 1 egg white, some grassfed piedmontese steak tips, chicken bacon, grassfed butter and grassfed swiss that I topped with grassfed sour cream, next to it is more piedmontese steak tips, a Don Lee Farmās organic chicken patty and some paleo chicken sausages. Also had some real pork bacon and a little grassfed polish sausage alongside it. And the black coffee and a cinnamon egg wrap with some grassfed cottage cheese inside.
Got in the remaining squats and push ups to get to 300 each, lunch at Qādoba was 8 ounces of adobo chicken, 8oz of pulled pork and 8oz of ground beef. The ground beef was a poor choice from a carnivore standpoint, since Iām sure they use some sort of maltodextrin based taco seasoning based on how I bloated/swole up immediately post consumption, but it was a big psychological win because I never would have permitted myself to eat that before. I wanted ground beef, so I got ground beef. That just makes sense. Also, they charge you 3.25 for 8oz of cooked meat at Qādoba, which is just fantastic. I think they have become my favorite fast food place.
Got in 150kb swings w/24kg bell, followed immediately by a shirtless 2.25 mile walk out in the sun to get some vitamin D, and as soon as I got back I knocked out 27 burpee chins in 2 minutes, which is flying. I LOVE that style of training: get the heart rate up, ride it out, come back and do it again. I may start up the heavy hands next time I do this. I like the vest, but I also like getting full sun exposure, and this seems like a good way to meet in the middle.
Dinner was Kevinās Korean BBQ Beef
Which is awesome, since itās grassfed beef, and I made mine without the sauce, and put it on top of egg whites, to have steak and eggs. But I also made a batch WITH the sauce for the family, because itās REALLY good.
Weāre looking at getting in a walk later, wherein Iāll throw on the weight vest. Otherwise, been a lot of activity going on while keeping carbs low and animal products high. Just a fantastic way to live. And Iām still jacked out of my mind and feeling awesome.
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Got up at 0545 since the Mrs needed to work on a paper, so I used that as an opportunity to set up the smoker and make some smoked rib fingers for lunch this week.
While they cooked, I did a fasted workout of
EMOM:
Min 1: Squats
Min 2: Push ups
Min 3: Swings
Repeat until hitting 300 squats, 300 push ups and 150 swings
Got it done in slightly under 14 minutes, which is a minute faster than when I run the traditional EMOM variant of this, sot that was something at least.
After breakfast, I got in 26 burpee chins in 2 minutes. I then did 4 KB snatches and 5 chins just randomly, followed by 10 snatches and 10 chins before a 2.2 mile shirtless walk, wherein I came back and immediately did a 2 minute circuit of 1 snatch per arm and then a burpee chin, finishing 9 rounds of that.
Dinner was bison and deer sloppy joes, mine were served on egg white wraps with grassfed sour cream and grassfed cheese.
Tomorrow we celebrate, so Cheesecake factory for lunch, hot dogs for dinner, cake for dessert. Good day to reload.
Think weāre going for a walk as a family in a bit as well.
Iām thinking I may have refined my way forward with making things more sustainable. I may endeavor to make weekends āpure carnivoreā and workdays Velocity Diet. Instead of shakes, Iāve been doing egg whites between meals this weekend, and it fits well. Itās kinda fun coming up with challenges, rules, parameters, etc.
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Not gonna lie brother, I just saw the thumbnail and assumed it was one of your videos, and audibly said āF#*% me there is no way shaving his beard made him look that differentā
Had to watch just to see for myself, then realized it wasnāt you lol
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We celebrate today, but itās also Memorial Day. I opened up with a fasted bodyweight Murph.
Got all the bodyweight work done in 17:17, using 20 rounds of 5 chins, 10 push ups, 15 squats.
Total time was 36:23
After it was done, I ran 1 more lap around my neighborhood (.28 miles), came home and did 5 rounds of 30 KB swings and 20 push ups, so Iād also get in my daily totals of 300 total push ups and 150 swings, with a time of 46:32 for the whole thing.
Ideally, I wouldnāt partition this and Iād wear the 10kg vest, as itās how I prefer to honor the fallen with this WOD, but today is an interesting balance of solemnity and celebration, and if I can find SOME way to pay tribute, Iām happy with that. This allowed me to get to yes by making Murph move quicker while still abiding by itās guidelines. Iām also extremely pleased with myself that I legit thought āIāll run Murph in the morningā before I went to be last night, vs previous years where I had to train for this and it was a significant emotional event. It speaks to the great general physical shape Iām in these days. Tacking on extra work at the end even moreseo.
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Quick sum of the day: had half of a apple fritter that was the size of a decent steak, alongside a Metabolic Drive shake as breakfast.
Lunch was a Cheesecake Factory debauchery in all the best ways possible. I had some Thai Chicken wrap appetizer all to myself, then shared the eggrole sampler, calamari and chicken taquitos between my wife and kid, and a whole slice of low-licious cheesecake for dessert, alongside a few bites of my wife and kidās cheesecake. Right before the meal, I had a 2 scoop Metabolic Drive shake to make sure I got in enough protein. After this, I fasted for the rest of the day because I was FULL. I JUST had 2 egg whites with a half scoop of Metabolic Drive before bed, just to get SOME protein in me, but Iām not sacrificing or being a martyr here: Iām just plain ol full.
I trained a lot more than I anticipated today. Mrs and I went for a 2.5 mile walk outside (went shirtless, got in more sun), then got in a 13 minute sled/KB workout in the sun (backwards drag, then forward, then carried the KBs all the way down and then all the way back, switching sides, since they were an unbalanced load of 20kg/40kg), then a 1.5 mile walk with the dog and the family later in the evening.
Iāve decided to pivot on this week of training, since it was memorial day and we did Murph, and given that the week prior was āRagnarok is Hereā, Iām thinking this week is āTo Valhalla!ā. Iām going to take some Hero WODS and make them as Viking as I can. First stop is Kalsu doing Viking thrusters and burpees, tomorrow. Weāll see how that goes, but Iām excited for this pivot as a psuedo-deload and break between famine and feast. All for experimentation.
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fixed that for you
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